Comments on Bridging Service-Oriented Architecture and IEC 61499 for Flexibility and Interoperability
This is an incremental critique targeting researchers in industrial informatics, questioning the feasibility of integrating service-oriented architecture with IEC 61499 standards.
The paper critiques a prior study that mapped IEC 61499 to SOA for flexibility and interoperability, disputing the validity and potential of the proposed mapping and execution environment.
In the paper by W. Dai et al. (IEEE Trans. On Industrial Informatics, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 771-781, June 2015), a formal mapping between IEC 61499 and SOA is presented and a SOA-based execution environment architecture is described. In this letter, the proposed in the above paper mapping and the execution environment architecture are discussed and their potential for the exploitation is disputed.